Ferndale motel guest charged as drug dealer

FERNDALE – A Highland Park man was ordered Thursday to stand trial on multiple drug charges after police say they found heroin, crack cocaine, prescription narcotics and packaging materials in a motel room where he was sleeping.

Anthony Alford, 36, was in Ferndale 43rd District Court for a preliminary examination on three counts delivery/manufacture of drugs, illegal possession of hydrocodone – a powerful prescription narcotic – and misdemeanor marijuana possession.

Alford was arrested Feb. 4 at the Motorama motel, 100 W. Eight Mile Road, in a room registered to another man, Tyron Snead, 55, of Detroit.

Police had stopped Snead for a broken light on his car and arrested him for an outstanding warrant and a suspended driver’s license. Snead was sentenced to 15 days in jail Thursday, but is being held on a parole violation.

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“The officer found Snead had marijuana on him after he was arrested,” said Ferndale Lt. William Wilson. “When the officer asked him if they could search his room he said yes.”

Ferndale police officers walked into the room and found Alford asleep on the bed, police said.

Officers confiscated several grams of crack cocaine, more than eight grams of heroin, 140 hydrocodone pills, small plastic bags and a digital scale,” Quisenberry said. “All that stuff in the room was evidence of intent to distribute” the drugs.

Each of the delivery/manufacture of drug charges against Alford in punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The charge for the prescription drugs is a seven-year felony.

The suspect has been convicted of six similar narcotics charges since 2000, according to Michigan Department of Corrections records. He is also a parole absconder.

Alford is scheduled to be arraigned for trial at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 21 before Oakland County Circuit Judge Denise Langford Morris.